In this case, we have a classic example of a leaking sealant. The interface between filling and sealant at the occluso-lingual groove of #3 has broken apart and been seeping with each day getting into the dentin beneath the filling and the tooth. The interface between the sealant and the filling breaks and starts leaking.
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Drink beer out of a can instead of a bottle. Click on the picture for the blown up view of today’s before and after for the chipped tooth. I heard an all-to-familiar story today. A patient was relaxing with his friends and was enjoying a beer. But, he made the fateful mistake of drinking it
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We had a patient with a fractured tooth. Instead of covering the whole tooth with a crown, we were able to conservatively cover just the back half (distal half) of the tooth with an onlay. All photos are published with patient consent.
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Thursday, March 28, 2013 A lot of people think that when you go on a mission trip to Guatemala that you will do nothing but extractions and that the majority of your impact will be on the physical health of patients as you remove a major source of infection and inflammation from their body. We
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Wednesday, May 14, 2014 When we started this case, the patient came to me stating unequivocally she was not interested in jaw surgery (orthognathic surgery), but she wanted to improve the look of her smile. I explained that if she was willing to do the work that together we could improve her esthetics and her
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Thursday, June 26, 2014 We started this case with our eyes wide open. We knew it would require 3 stages: Stage 1: Invisalign to straighten the crooked teeth. Stage 2: Advancement of the lower jaw. Stage 3 below. From the beginning, we knew that this case included a mandibular jaw insufficiency, Class II div 2.
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A couple of really big dental changes took place for this patient over the past 3 years. I am going to detail the three most significant changes we accomplished with Invisalign, and bonding. I.I corrected end-on-end occlusion to finish the occlusion in mutually-protected occlusion. Before her teeth were end-on-end, leaving her anteriors hitting tip-to-tip, which is
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